Sentence examples for earnest expression from inspiring English sources

The earnest expression he had worn in the traditional dances released itself into a beatific smile.

Five feet six, with rigid posture, Tyler had short reddish hair, a prominent nose, and an open, earnest expression.

Minutes later, Anton waved the tallest boy over to dance with me, a towering, dark-haired man named Alex with an extremely earnest expression.

When you think of it as an earnest expression of anxiety, when you hear the plaintive questions behind the flowery language — Can you see the flag?

Wearing snug jeans and an unbelievably earnest expression, this sun-kissed rancher offers some down-home praise for the former secretary of state.

Eduardo Saverin, played by Andrew Garfield, is taller and better looking, but his handsomeness is undercut by an earnest expression that's always on the verge of crumpling with joy or anxiety.

Pike provides both comic foil and love interest for Atkinson – all wide eyes, earnest expressions and fitted shift dresses.

Ben Whishaw puts an endearing spin on the good-hearted cub's lines, but forced charm of Paddington's earnest expressions deprives him of any of the Chaplinesque cheek that his frustrations, as a perpetual outsider, suggest.

But often people reminded him with their praise, their earnest expressions of admiration that came, he said, in various forms of the same thought: "If I were in your position, I would kill myself".

With their distended bellies, stick-like arms and legs, and earnest expressions, the naked figures have a whimsical quality, though their anatomy is frankly rendered — something unusual for the period.

So what's the point of Philomena Cunk? "We're sending up all the moves of TV presenters: the earnest expressions, the white gloves, sobbing over the manuscripts, all that – through the prism of someone who's very dim".